Thread: London 2012 results and comments only (no politics)

Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

Games are over for us. We got 9 medals ( 2 - 5 - 2 ), pretty good for a country where nobody is practicing any sport.

Now I'm interested only in the Spice Girls performance on the final ceremony.

Pretty bad compared with past Olympic performance. You lot should start moving your behinds a bit to inspire kids to do better in the future.

Originally Posted by D-Type

But the Bahamas take the 4x400 ending a run of 16 gold medals.

On a different theme, how many of Britain's medals are in sports where the participants are sitting down? Horsing, rowing, cycling, sailing, ...

In all fairness the first leg runner Mario Miller broke his fibula in the prelims, (still ran a 45sec leg) and they did not have a suitable replacement. It was a herculean effort even to medal. As for the Bahamas; how many of their relay team live in the US run NCAA Track, receive the best training in the world while attending U.S. Universities on scholarship providing them a free college education??????????????
All of them!

Originally Posted by pino

Go Mexico ! :

Viva Mexico

RA I finally got to see the bmx finals. Congrat's on your gold and bronze

BMX-crazy dangerous sport.

Soccer any one?


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Mexico1 Brazil 0 65th minute

Offside!!!!!!

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooal
Mexico!!
Mexico has two fingers up Brazil's.............

Brazil's defense is having a dreadful day.
Mejico is on its way to Olympic glory.

Órale!!!!


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And Brazil is on its way to heavy Brazilian media bashing.


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Viva Peralta, Viva Mexico

Viva Mexico

Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

I think it's very good for such a small country, and your strength in gymnastics has always been rather good! Congratulations.

ALL the money for sports in my country, India, is funneled ONLY into cricket. While that did get us 2 Cricket world cups in the span of 4 years, we are nowhere on the world map when it comes to Olympics, which is rather disgraceful for the second most populated country on Earth. I mean look at China.

The people, nor the politicians care about any other sport than Cricket, which is a shame.

The Indian athlete Abhinav Bindra who won gold for India in air rifle 10 m at the Beijing Olympics got very little or next to no training or funding from the Indian government. He was lucky that he was filthy rich and could afford his own German trainers.

The Indians didn't get off to a good start at the Olympics winning hearts and minds, the Indian sports minister was twittering that the athlete's village at the New Delhi games put the London ones to shame. Didn't realise that collapsing bridges and excrement on the walls was the latest must-have for an Olympics village these days...

Still you're right, Olympics success is pretty much a product of how much money you're willing to spend on any particular sport. Its no coincidence that Britain has improved most in the three sports that have received the most lottery funding, cycling, athletics and swimming.

Went to see the women's football final at Wembley a few days ago. Great match, fantastic atmosphere though we missed the American handball and the rugby tackle that should have resulted in Japanese penalties as the action replays weren't played at the stadium oddly enough. That was probably the only logistical error of the night, organisation and security were utterly faultless right down to the tube running rushhour timetables at 11 at night to cope with the crowd.

Anyway even with those refereeing errors the match was great, the Americans won gold, the Japanese won the fans over but the overall winner was women's football, I'll definitely go to another international match and perhaps more importantly I'd be happy taking my son along with me which I wouldn't with men's football match. Another fan converted.

Phew, bronze and fifth from mens javelin, with pretty good results, especially from Pitkämäki after his problems. Now I don't have to read about crap about the wrong men chosen for London (javelin for us is probably the most important event )
And bronze too from the very odd match race sailing.

Edit:

Mo money, Mo Farah.
I can't believe the rest of the field didn't run fast from the last 1,5-1km against the best 300m sprinter of the bunch.

Prop's to Jamaica for shattering the wr in the 4x100
US close second with a new American record.

US Mens Diving Gold
Womens 4x400 Gold,
and a thorough beat-down for gold in womens hoops

Pino I don't understand the strategy of jettisoning your seat 5KM's from the finish line

Neither do I

29 Gold medals for Great Britain. That's a gold for every 2.1 million Brits. The US has a gold every 7.1 million and China has a gold for every 35.4 million.